Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 194
Search Results for concrete poetry
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Bashō In Brazil, or Zen and the Art of Concrete Poetry
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 332–350.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Marco Alexandre de Oliveira By exploring the ubiquity of Bashō's frog haiku in Brazil as the naturalization of a poetics of nature and the ideographic sign, this essay traces distinct affinities between the arts of Zen and concrete poetry, in both theory and practice. It begins by observing...
View articletitled, Bashō In Brazil, or Zen and the Art of <span class="search-highlight">Concrete</span> <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, Bashō In Brazil, or Zen and the Art of <span class="search-highlight">Concrete</span> <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span>
Journal Article
Concretism’s Dissonant Objects
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., which Aleixo speaks of in his above-quoted poem, “O poemanto: Ensaio para escrever ( com ) o corpo” (“The Poemantle: Essay for Writing [with] the Body”). The wearable evokes the traditions of Brazilian concrete poetics, a radical poetry movement beginning in the 1960s that claimed to compose a form...
FIGURES
| View All (7)
Journal Article
Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Alice Xiang Abstract From multilingual peace conferences to mistranslated poetry stanzas, internationalist anthologies to the creation of a literary “Asiafrica,” the relationship between China and the iconic Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet allows readers to explore some of the concrete ways in which...
FIGURES
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span> and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature
View
PDF
for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span> and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature
Journal Article
Dialogues across the Continent: The Influence of Czesław Miłosz on Seamus Heaney
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
... as case studies to elucidate the way in which Milosz's poetic changes as it travels westward and influences Heaney's volume The Haw Lantern (1987). Heaney's experiments with the parable form, and his corollary desire to bring the “aerated” language of abstractions into a poetry based on concrete...
Journal Article
Reorienting Ourselves toward the Material: Between Page and Screen as Case Study
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 September 2018
... (and the book) by looking beyond it to the interstice of its edge and the screen. Let us consider one more example of how the work’s concrete poetry illuminates the media of textual poetics: the short animation that resembles Wall Street ticker tape. Abbreviations and acronyms of corporations appear...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Remedial Materialism: What Can Comparative Literature and Electronic Literature Learn from Each Other?
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of concrete poetry to produce a design that requires readers to assemble letters into legible words. Initially stabbing in the dark, coming up short, and getting it backwards, patient readers of Lewis’s poem eventually learn its protocols and master the gestures that facilitate comprehension. In his reading...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 371–373.
Published: 01 September 2014
... director and theo-
rist Sergei Eisenstein. These three based their film theories on what they perceived to be
salient characteristics of the Chinese script. The chapter also devotes a large section to
analyzing Concrete Poetry written by poets from Brazil and Taiwan.
“Sinographies” is concerned...
Journal Article
Visual-Verbal Materiality
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 357–368.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., not in the sense that each letter is read as if it were an ideogram in itself, but in the sense that the meaning of letters, signs, and words, changes according to the place and function they have in the larger context of the screen. Concrete poetry and conceptual poetry as well as poetry on screen are clear...
Journal Article
An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili Poetry
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
... body). In the lyric poetry of the time, attributes from social status to sensuality needed to find concrete form. This is also why the material world is so prominent in Liyongo poems: the inside-outside dichotomy is suspended. As the anthropologist Paola Ivanov finds, making a case for an aesthetic...
View articletitled, An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere”: Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swahili <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span>
Journal Article
“A sane balance of values”: The Cantos as World Literature
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 361–375.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of Michigan P, 2003 . 31 -48. Altieri, Charles. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 . Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007 . Apter...
Journal Article
Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2015
... him on the side of the downtrodden and pro-
claimed him a non-ideological poet. Rogers also details Spender’s great interest in and
translations of Lorca’s poetry. While through the Revista de Occidentes Ortega became an
admired intellectual presence in the Europe of the thirties, Lorca gained...
Journal Article
Representing the Other: A Conversation among Mikhail Bakhtin, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wisława Szymborska
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (1): 84–99.
Published: 01 January 2005
.... Costello, Bonnie. “Vision and Mastery in Elizabeth Bishop.” Twentieth Century Literature 28 . 4 ( 1982 ): 351 -70. Davidson, Michael. “Discourse in Poetry: Bakhtin and Extensions of the Dialogical.” Code of Signals: Recent Writings in Poetics . Ed. Michael Palmer. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1983...
Journal Article
Literature and Learning How to Live: Milan Kundera's Theory of the Novel as a Quest for Maturity
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 235–250.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Daniel Just This essay discusses the implications of Milan Kundera's conception of the novel for literary theory and history. It presents Kundera's theory of the novel as a search for a type of didacticism that inscribes the reader in a process of learning that does not have a concrete content...
Journal Article
Return of the Cenci: Theaters of Trauma in Shelley and Artaud
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
...).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 406
relentless insistence on theatricality as an embodiment in a “physical and concrete
language” that articulates not a verbal poetry but “a poetry of space” (Selected Writ-
ings 231–32). “[I]t is essential,” he writes in the First Manifesto of the Theater of Cru-
elty...
Journal Article
The (Neo)Baroque Effect: A Critical Inquiry into the Transformation and Application of a Conceptual Field to Comparative American Studies
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 295–315.
Published: 01 June 2009
... LITERATURE / 304
It is an anti-tradition that, beginning with Gregorio de Matos and passing through
Oswaldo de Andrade, continues in contemporary Brazilian poetry, an “anti-
normative” concrete poetry. For Haroldo de Campos, this anti-tradition is just
another name for “carnivalization.”
While...
View articletitled, The (Neo)Baroque Effect: A Critical Inquiry into the Transformation and Application of a Conceptual Field to Comparative American Studies
View
PDF
for article titled, The (Neo)Baroque Effect: A Critical Inquiry into the Transformation and Application of a Conceptual Field to Comparative American Studies
Journal Article
The Other Latin
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 58–73.
Published: 01 January 2008
... that the only Western language with a structure comparable
to Chinese in concreteness is Greek, and second that “the influence of written
Chinese as a medium for thought, in poetry and philosophy, occupies a position
in East Asian civilization like that of Greek in the West.”1
In this sense Chinese can...
Journal Article
Marsyas's Howl: The Myth of Marsyas in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Zbigniew Herbert's “Apollo and Marsyas”
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
... and the pressure of readership. That no poet writes solely for his contem-
porary audience has been proved by many a poet, including the uncompromis-
ing Russian Nobel laureate. Yet the vector of poetry does not point exclusively
toward the past; it also extends into the future: in their desire to build monu...
Journal Article
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues; Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Andrew Ford The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 452 p. Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry. By Grace M. Ledbetter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. viii...
View articletitled, The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues; Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues; Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of <span class="search-highlight">Poetry</span>
Journal Article
Herder’s Hermenutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Lina Steiner Herder’s Hermenutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment . By Kristin Gjesdal . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . Xiv+232 p. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 One of the pioneers of comparative literary studies and a founder...
Journal Article
The Idea of Europe-Treading on Native Ground?
Available to Purchase
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 360–375.
Published: 01 September 2006
... ): 33 -38. Macpherson, James. Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Scottish Highlands and Translated from the Gaelic or Ersic Tongue . 1760. Ed. Otto Luitpold Jiriczek. Heidelberg: Winter, 1915 . Mann, Thomas. Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen . 1918. Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1956...
1
